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College basketball’s Selection Sunday always drips with anxiety. Perhaps never more than this season.
The perennial questions remain. Who’s in? Who’s out? Who’s overseeded? Who’s underseeded?
As if we weren’t enough on edge, the overnight shift to...

The CIAA’s best regular-season team and its tournament champion — big rivals, no less — squared off in the NCAA Division II tournament’s first round Saturday night.
Virginia State, which is hosting an eight-team regional in its home arena in Ettrick,...

Senior guard Aliyah Huland El scored a season-high 21 points Sunday as the Virginia women’s basketball team beat Georgia Tech 62-56 in Atlanta.
The victory enabled the Cavaliers (15-7, 8-1) to keep their share of first place in the Atlantic Coast...

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Baseball:
Old Dominion was selected to finish fourth out of 12 teams in the Conference USA coaches poll. ODU sophomores Vinnie Pasquantino and Kyle Battle were named to the Preseason All-C-USA team.
The Monarchs were picked behind reigning...

Connor Burchfield scored 19 points as William and Mary snapped a two-game losing streak by winning 80-73 at Elon in a Colonial Athletic Association contest Saturday night.
The Tribe, which boasts two five-game win streaks this season, had lost...

Marvin Bagley III had 30 points and 11 rebounds, and No. 7 Duke beat Wake Forest 89-71 Saturday in a home game Hall of Fame coach Mike Krzyzewski missed due to a virus.
With longtime assistant Jeff Capel in charge, the short-handed and illness-ravaged...

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Football:
Tim Young, a 6-foot-4, 320-pound offensive lineman for Phoebus High, signed to play for coach Mike London’s Howard Bison in the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
Howard went 7-4 this season, its first under London, including a...

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Football:
James Madison agreed to a 10-year contract extension for head coach Mike Houston, an agreement that keeps Houston under contract with the Dukes through the 2027 season. JMU, last year’s NCAA champion, is 27-1 under him and is facing...

Randy Haynes had a career-high 25 points to lead Old Dominion to a 75-67 victory over Dayton to take fifth place at the Charleston Classic on Sunday.
The Monarchs (4-1), who lost their opening game of the South Carolina event to Temple, recovered to beat...

The past two weeks, Old Dominion coach Bobby Wilder didn’t address his players regarding their fading bowl hopes. Why bother? Everyone knew there was no margin for error.
That’s still the case. But for the first time since the first two weeks of...

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Men’s basketball:
Christopher Newport, ranked 14th in the d3hoops.com national preseason poll, led by double digits early in the second half but lost 61-58 in an exhibition Thursday night before 2,036 fans at Division I Maryland Eastern...